Players · T · Pitcher · 2026 regular season
Justin Topa
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #56
- Born
- March 7, 1991 in Binghamton, NY, United States
- MLB debut
- September 1, 2020
- Drafted
- 2012, round 33
- College
- LIU Brooklyn
- High school
- Chenango Valley
- Salary, 2026
- $225,000
Compare with…vs Shaun Andersonvs Ryan Walkervs Seth Halvorsen
- dbWAR
- 2.3 Regular season, 8 season(s)
- IP
- 22.0
- ERA
- 6.95
- FIP
- 6.01
- K/9
- 6.1
- FIP−
- 144 100 = avg
Justin Topa is a relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2026 he struck out 15 batters over 22.0 innings across 25 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 6.95 was 66.3% higher than the league average of 4.18 — the worst on his team, and 526th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.01 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 16.6% of swings (7.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.9%. His -0.3 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.
League context
Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2026 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | MIN/NYY | 25 | 0 | 22.0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 6.95 | 6.01 | 1.95 | 6.1 | 4.9 | 166 | 144 | -0.3 | |
| 2025 | MIN | 54 | 1 | 60.0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 68 | 26 | 49 | 18 | 3.90 | 3.04 | 1.43 | 7.3 | 2.7 | 94 | 73 | 1.2 | |
| 2024 | MIN | 3 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.45 | 0.43 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 0 | 36 | 0.1 | |
| 2023 | SEA | 75 | 0 | 69.0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 61 | 20 | 61 | 18 | 2.61 | 3.15 | 1.14 | 8.0 | 2.3 | 60 | 73 | 1.3 | |
| 2022 | MIL | 7 | 0 | 7.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4.91 | 3.66 | 1.77 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 124 | 92 | 0.1 | |
| 2021 | MIL | 4 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 29.70 | 11.27 | 3.90 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 696 | 264 | -0.2 | |
| 2020 | MIL | 6 | 0 | 7.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 2.35 | 1.76 | 0.91 | 14.1 | 0.0 | 53 | 39 | 0.3 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | MIL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -118 | -0.0 | — |
Separate from the regular season
Postseason Postseason
Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.
Postseason pitching
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Post | MIL | Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.0 |
Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.
Platoon splits
How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 40 | 35 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 7 | .286 | .350 | .429 | .343 | 17.5% |
| vs RHB | 68 | 57 | 21 | 3 | 9 | 8 | .368 | .456 | .561 | .443 | 11.8% |
Pitch sequencing
What Justin Topa throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.
Select a count to see exactly what Justin Topa throws in it.
Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Sinker | 168 | 93.5 | 2,186 | 44.0% | 12.7% | 39 | .436 | 1.050 | |
| Cutter | 110 | 91.5 | 2,315 | 48.2% | 17.6% | 18 | .167 | .733 | |
| Sweeper | 82 | 81.8 | 2,631 | 35.4% | 20.7% | 16 | .313 | 1.103 | |
| Changeup | 54 | 86.2 | 1,831 | 35.2% | 20.0% | 19 | .316 | .707 |
Compare Justin Topa with…
Side by side with up to three others.
Or read one already written — Justin Topa against:
- Shaun Andersonsimilar 2026 seasons
- Ryan Walkersimilar 2026 seasons
- Seth Halvorsensimilar 2026 seasons
- Simeon Woods Richardsonsimilar 2026 seasons
- Chris Roycroftsimilar 2026 seasons
- Sean Sullivansimilar 2026 seasons
- Spencer Bivenssimilar 2025 seasons
- Hoby Milnersimilar 2025 seasons
- Brenan Hanifeesimilar 2025 seasons
- Graham Ashcraftsimilar 2025 seasons
- Matt Gagesimilar 2025 seasons
Similar players
Nearest 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.